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Kevin Padian

Curator/Professor, Integrative Biology

His research: Kevin Padian is interested in how large-scale changes get started in evolution. He and his colleagues work to address questions such as "how did flight evolve?" and "how did dinosaurs walk?"

Why he loves his work: "That it's different every day (I always have new problems to work on). That I can work all over the world. That there are great people in my field from all backgrounds. That we're learning cool stuff all the time. That you're part of a profession with an amazing historical legacy. That you have to know something about a lot of different fields in order to do it properly. And that five-year-olds are as interested in what you do as you are."

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